CHEVY SONIC OWNERS: Is your Chevy Sonic a Lemon? Is it always in the shop?

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What Sonic Owners Complain About

Sometimes it helps just to tally up the complaints and see where the biggest stacks are. Use this information to learn about troublespots or to run for the hills.

What Breaks the Most

Years to Avoid

Sonic Generations

Generations are groups of model years where few, if any, changes were made to the vehicle which means their model years tend to break in similar ways. The Sonic has 1 generation available in North American markets.

Sonic Key Numbers

  1. 319 complaints

    Running tally of owner grievances filed to CarComplaints.com.

  2. 1,508 service bulletins

    Documenting the process of troubleshooting common problems.

  3. 15 recall campaigns

    Time-sensitive, free repairs for widespread safety problems.

Recent Sonic News

There's a lot of news out there, but not all of it matters. We try to boil down it to the most important bits about things that actually help you with your car problem. Interested in getting these stories in an email? Signup for free email alerts over at CarComplaints.com.

  1. You should avoid getting rear-ended in a 2018 Sonic until you get your seats repaired as part of this recall.

    I mean, you should probably just avoid getting rear ended in general, but I think you know what I mean.

    General Motors is recalling 71 model year 2018 Chevy Sonics because the seatback frames may not be strong enough to hold in a rear-end crash … The problem is a joint in the driver-side seatback frame that wasn't properly welded, making the frame too weak to hold in a crash.

    keep reading article "The Seatbacks in Some 2018 Sonics Weren’t Welded Properly"